Packs are essentially broken
in Make It So!
(I'm posting this here in the forlorn hope that someone at DB might read it and take it to heart. Maybe future players will benefit from any changes implemented, but I won't be one of them.)
I stopped renewing my monthly card some time ago because of the frustration from packs. I've been playing almost 2 years, so nearly every pack has a character I've immortalised. The odds of getting that character every single time shouldn't be as high as they are, but - well, we all know the feeling. But so many packs have characters I WANT, which makes the near-guarantee of getting one I don't need feel like I'm being punished for my loyalty.
Buying packs used to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of the game. Watching those 10 slots fill up with new characters was great in the early days. Later on, the odd duplicate was no big deal, especially once honour points were introduced. Now, for a player like me, packs contain nothing but frustration: the one character I don't need, plus a whole raft of ship schems (useless given how many replicator rations I get from voyages). Even the airlock blues are more useful than schems. And I WANTED to spend money. All DB needed to do was add a refresh/respin option to the Behold dilemma and I'd have thrown more money at the game.
Well, I had enough dil from the "immortalise X crew" rewards (I've maxed now at 350) that I decided to take a chance in the last event. I really wanted Queen Guinevere Kira, but I was certain I'd get Tourist Reed. I can almost always FF the threshhold character in Galaxy events so he was the one I really didn't need. Sure enough, Pull #1 gave me Tourist Reed. And so did Pull #2. No Guinevere. Nothing useful at all.
And now...
I really wanted Breen Dukat. So I took another chance with the remaining dil, pretty much knowing I'd get Weyoun, who I already have immortalised. Yup - Pull #1 gave me Weyoun and a few airlock blues. I had just enough left for one more try, and yeah, at this point it was just sheer bloody-mindedness. It was also the single worst pull I've ever had, in many months of playing every single day.
I'm sure you can guess what the first one is. Yes, another Weyoun. And that's it. DB have lost yet another loyal (VERY loyal) player. I'm not angry; I'm really just sad. Sad because the fun has gone and sad because of how predictable these last 4 pulls were. If DB were deliberately trying to chase me away, they couldn't have done a better job.
I stopped renewing my monthly card some time ago because of the frustration from packs. I've been playing almost 2 years, so nearly every pack has a character I've immortalised. The odds of getting that character every single time shouldn't be as high as they are, but - well, we all know the feeling. But so many packs have characters I WANT, which makes the near-guarantee of getting one I don't need feel like I'm being punished for my loyalty.
Buying packs used to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of the game. Watching those 10 slots fill up with new characters was great in the early days. Later on, the odd duplicate was no big deal, especially once honour points were introduced. Now, for a player like me, packs contain nothing but frustration: the one character I don't need, plus a whole raft of ship schems (useless given how many replicator rations I get from voyages). Even the airlock blues are more useful than schems. And I WANTED to spend money. All DB needed to do was add a refresh/respin option to the Behold dilemma and I'd have thrown more money at the game.
Well, I had enough dil from the "immortalise X crew" rewards (I've maxed now at 350) that I decided to take a chance in the last event. I really wanted Queen Guinevere Kira, but I was certain I'd get Tourist Reed. I can almost always FF the threshhold character in Galaxy events so he was the one I really didn't need. Sure enough, Pull #1 gave me Tourist Reed. And so did Pull #2. No Guinevere. Nothing useful at all.
And now...
I really wanted Breen Dukat. So I took another chance with the remaining dil, pretty much knowing I'd get Weyoun, who I already have immortalised. Yup - Pull #1 gave me Weyoun and a few airlock blues. I had just enough left for one more try, and yeah, at this point it was just sheer bloody-mindedness. It was also the single worst pull I've ever had, in many months of playing every single day.
I'm sure you can guess what the first one is. Yes, another Weyoun. And that's it.
DB have lost yet another loyal (VERY loyal) player. I'm not angry; I'm really just sad. Sad because the fun has gone and sad because of how predictable these last 4 pulls were. If DB were deliberately trying to chase me away, they couldn't have done a better job. "There are two types of beings in the universe - those who dance, and those who do not."
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You could have bought the pack which guarantees 2 Dukats. In that case your Dil would have even grown. You would have had at least 2 copies of Dukat + maybe more with the "free" pulls that come with this offer etc (saying because you mentioned spending money, if you only meant the monthly card with that that is no option oc).
In general dublicates are normal in CCG´s when you play for some time. And the path to characters we want will generate many dublicates up to super rare as well. Especially if you want certain legendaries to be FF.
That aside, and sadly, DB like all mobile game companies is more interested in acquiring fresh costumers than truly benefitting older ones. Hence they also cut a new deal last year:
http://tp.tilting-point.com/disruptor-beam-tilting-point-user-acquisition-funding-star-trek-timelines/
So while the packs are not broken mobile game business kinda is. In reality the best customers get the "red carpet" treatment, not so in games stuff.
one positive aspect: received several 10x10 offers during the last weeks, which I haven't seen for months, but sorry DB - not interested anymore!
I am still bewildered by DB's logic, though (or lack thereof). If their main interest is in the money NEW players will throw at the game, and they genuinely don't care about the loyal long-termers, then surely it could only benefit DB to grant a few of our wishes to keep us (or rather - our money) in the game as well. Even if we were able to collect/FF every single character in the game and then stopped playing, feeling satisfied, they'd still be counting all the money we'd spent to get there.
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It's gambling, by design isn't made to amuse you only to take your money.
But yeah, for a collecting game that wants me to give it money (and I want to give it money), it's doing a terrible, terrible job of offering anything I want to buy.
Just got my first one
This partially caused by DB’s laziness in regards to updating the packs. There are now 6 months of event and limited card not added to regular packs.
The game is simply an unrewarding grind now, with little chance of changing.
DB - this should NEVER happen! Fix this.
I didn’t even do the pulling and I feel the rage.
On the bright side, my Dukat is 3/4 FE so IF they ever update the months old portal table I might get lucky. No point buying packs anymore.
Jim
The key here, and I hope the OP comes back, is the $9.99 option to guarantee a copy of a character you want is a nice new trend. That said, a respin on beholds would really extend to life of the game generally